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I would love to be a fly on the wall watching other directors and actors to see what their process is like.
I almost feel more anxious lately about, 'Here's your opportunity, now you've got to make something of it.'
I think in some ways it's good to have at least one thing for which you could be really immortal, you know?
I'm not confident with the ladies. I can't just ask someone out in a club. I'd like to say I'm a gentleman.
Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling.
Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.
I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is.
As an actor, I'm rather hit and miss; I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't.
Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.
I love working with actors. I grew up with a lot of actors. All my friends are actors. I love that process.
I'm big into social studies, the humanities. I really love history and world issues and philosophy and law.
In talking about a genius, you would not say that he lies; he sees realities with different eyes from ours.
I don’t want kids to think it’s okay to drop out of school and get high, and they’ll be famous actors, too.
It's sad that children don't spend enough time looking around and being amazed by what's in the real world.
The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus.
I luckily had a very charming, lovable mom who I think everybody could see bits and pieces of their mom in.
I would definitely like to be a slightly aging action hero with a smart mouth and have a little bit of fun.
I've always wanted to see what it would be like to live in feudal Japan; I think that would be interesting.
How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?
Writing can be really lonely, and I find that bit difficult. I'd rather be around my people, getting ideas.
Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love because a heart can break but a circle goes on forever.
See, my strumpf is in my hair. Now, I don't know what strumpf means. It's just a term some brothas gave me.
I dated a lot of girls all through high school, and in college I dated a young lady for about eight months.
When I run in the morning, my body spends the first 20 minutes trying to figure out what's happening to it.
There's moments when you have to make a split-second decision that will form you for the rest of your life.
I think that the reason I became an actor, probably, underneath it, was that I spent my life acting normal.
Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.
Feelings come and go, unless you don't feel them. Then they stay, and hurt, and grow pear-shaped and weird.
If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens.
You become tyrannized by this notion that women must not only be treated equally, but they must never fail.
I think people are always trying to demystify whatever acting is, so they want to know what your method is.
I just want to bend fire. You know, it'd be cool to throw some fire to a couple of old agents, the ex wife.
I'm an actor, and so of course I want to see TV companies making good dramas. I want that to be a priority.
When I was a lad, my parents and all their equivalents never lusted after other people's riches or success.
You need help when you're starting out. On the other hand, some people are very naturalistic to begin with.
A philosopher once noted that people long for immortality but run out of things to do on a rainy afternoon.
You can’t have people curating culture in this way when we need to see things in order to reform from them.
I don't think Alfonso was a big expert on Potter either. He was feeling his way through it more than I was.
The very best thing about doing it is seeing the reaction on kid's faces when you tell them you've done it.
Loud, stupid and overeating will suffice as long as we also have the funny, the fierce and the intellectual
Personally, I think Jim Henson said it best when he said "Anybody got an aspirin? I think I've got a cold."
I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. I grew up in Houston. Gordo Cooper was my favorite astronaut.
I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball.
I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.
You put on the military outfit, and it definitely tightens everything up and makes you stand up straighter.
It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true.
I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.
I write every day for two hours. But it's what I do for the other twenty-two hours that allows me to write.
Until Scrubs, I didnt have a business manager. I learned everything on my own - and I learned the hard way.
In Hollywood, I'm lucky, I only do big movies like 'Blade.' It's much more comfortable: you have a trailer.